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Jenny Ouyang's avatar

Really love how you framed this, especially how you broke down different metrics for different situations! I haven’t been very consistent about tracking my own creator metrics, so this was a much-needed reminder.

I’m truly honored that you’re enjoying my work too, I’ve felt the same about yours. Thank you for the thoughtful conversations!

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Joel Salinas's avatar

Yes, same, I’ve enjoyed our discussion!

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Bette A. Ludwig, PhD 🌱's avatar

I say this time and time again that you have to use both intuition and data. If you're just relying on what you think, you could be leading yourself right off a cliff.

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Joel Salinas's avatar

Yes! It’s too easy to mislead yourself…

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Jose Antonio Morales's avatar

Thank you so much for your kind mention!

Good points on your article as well! I have a question: what if the metrics become the objective?

I’ve seen that risk play in huge tech companies.

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Joel Salinas's avatar

That’s the other end of the spectrum, and I’ve seen it too, metrics alone with no intuition and experience (or worse, twisting metrics to match your goal). Here you are just as in danger of going wrong. That’s where the key is, I believe, a balance between metrics and developed intuition. What to you think?

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Jose Antonio Morales's avatar

As a social entrepreneur I have studied at least something about Social Impact Measurement.

I think that defining the metrics and following them to tract improvement is very positive - if you don’t measure it, it doesn’t exist - but it is also a difficult and expensive job.

And as you said so well, a combination of “gut feelings” or wisdoms adds to the formula, and that doesn’t come easily or fast.

I’m starting a cooperation with the school of business of the university of Ljubljana to see if they can help us set the metrics and methodology for our Coworking spaces. I’ve seen many initiatives fostering such cooperations successfully

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Joel Salinas's avatar

I’d love to hear more about your findings when they come out

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